I didn't mean this post would make people talk about whole federation and censorship. Looks like we really need to talk about Federation and Censorship
this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2026
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That’s rich coming from fedi. On pexelfed there’s a guy that takes pictures of people’s faces, cars, license plates, and homes with addresses and nothing can be done about it. I just flat out blocked this ugly looking fucker but he still shows up on my feed. You can’t report him so it dawns on me that there’s also nothing that can be done on Pixelfed or other platforms on fedi about harassment or doxxing.
Laughs in @lemmy.dbzer0.com.
The strength of the fediverse is exactly this: don't like what an instance admin is doing? Move to another instance or create your own.
That’s why it’s nice not to use lemmy.world
Turns out the admins and community moderators there lie or just don't care, mild shock.
I had no idea this was a thing. Interesting. I can see from liability why this is not something they dont want to touch, being a general purpose instance.
I think lemmy/fediverse needs a place where if you try and subscribe to something blocked, you get a post/page explaining why they did the thing. Its going to confuse new users otherwise.
IIRC when it was implemented in the first place, it seemed like lemmy.world had actually been contacted by some stakeholder with a DMCA-style request, even though the community was not actually originating on lemmy.world. Explaining how federation worked to lawyers didn’t matter much and with .world at the time becoming one of the larger and more visible instances that seemed like the best way to avoid the headaches. Initially they defederated with dbzer0 entirely before developing a way to block just the community.
Considering the bullshit spewed by them to justify their ban of pro-Luigi comments, claiming they consulted a lawyer, I doubt this ever happened.
Is it a known thing that they were dishonest about speaking to a lawyer with that situation?
I've been meaning to change instances and find a new home, if it's known that they lied or mislead their users thats something I'd love to know more about
I've been on a few instances. Was on lemm.ee before owner-fatigue. Joined a couple since, but lemmy.zip felt closer to my old instance than any other. Super transparent admin and one of the reasons I have a monthly donation set up. Got good quality folks here, also!
Hey Cris,
As someone else said in the comments, https://lemmy.zip/ is very nice. You can see the monthly updates from the admins on !home@lemmy.zip
And if you want to give Piefed a chance, they have https://piefed.zip/ as well
You can import your Lemmy.world settings and blocks from the account settings
They did not admit it. I don't think anyone could have have proof they didn't. Only the ridiculousness of their arguments.
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